No, the mother would have needed it for court-ordered custody and naturalization. She may have feared ostammer sr. would try to take her son back to Kenya unless she got custody and got him naturalized.
9K + views! Oh this has gotten noticed.
If that's the case, then how in the heck did Orly get ahold of it? Everything on Obama's end has been sealed up like a brick wall since before the election.
Seems to me, that she would have more likely gotten it through a Kenyan channel.
There's nothing saying that both parents didn't get a copy for their own purposes.